Dressing up a New Year's beauty by making and hanging Christmas decorations from cones will not be difficult. After all, it is not at all necessary to hang only colorful balloons bought in a store. In fact, the Christmas tree can be decorated with almost any one made by yourself, from everything that is at hand! You just need to act out the fantasy.

What do we need

In order to make Christmas tree decorations from cones with our own hands, we need:

• cones;
• glue;
• strong threads;
• thick sewing needle or awl;
• shiny paint (spray) or glitter;
• stand;
• some cotton wool;
• rags and thinner.

We collect cones in the forest, if this is not possible, then in parks, on alleys, boulevards. In those places where you met spruce or pine trees.

Fir trees do not grow everywhere. In some parts of the country, only pine trees grow in the wild. Their buds are also great for making crafts.

Now, they need to be dried, especially if you collected them after rain or looked under the snow. Otherwise, the glue and paint will not come off.

You need to choose reliable glue so that your Christmas tree cones do not fall apart. It will be needed to connect the seeds to each other - we will collect figures from them. Also, glue may be required to fix sequins or cotton wool, which will act as snow. It looks very nice.

Threads are used to hang toys from branches. You need strong, thick threads so that the loop of the craft does not break. You will need a needle to pierce the bumps so that you can create a secure loop. For paints and glitters, there are two options:

1. You just paint the buds.
2. Cover the bump completely with glue, and then sprinkle glitter on it.

When working with adhesives and paints, observe safety standards. If you work indoors, then it should be well ventilated, not have an open flame. Protect your face with a bandage. Collect everything you need for making crafts and put it on the table in advance. Prepare solvent if you need to wipe paint off your hands or use gloves.

A stand will be needed to facilitate the process of evenly painting or shedding sparkles on the cone. You can make it from a matchbox and a thin long carnation.

Let's get down to fun work

Now we will make the simplest Christmas tree cone with our own hands. We take the achenes of the spruce and clean them of debris, so that the paint will then lay down well and the glue will not fall off. It will be enough to gently wipe each of them with a dry cloth. We choose a place where we will paint the cones. Cover the surface with newspapers.

It is best to paint with aerosol enamel (car spray cans). It's more convenient, cheaper, and you don't have to brush over hard-to-reach places!

We string the sharp part of the cone onto the carnation of our stand and begin to paint each cone, from all sides. We are waiting for them to dry. The drying time of the paint is always indicated on the label.

When all the cones are dry, remove them from the stand and take the glue with cotton wool.
We coat the entire semicircular part with glue and cover with a small amount of cotton wool. You should wait a little more until the glue dries.

Using a needle or an awl, pierce the upper part through and through. If you prick with a needle, then you can insert a thread into its eyelet in advance. We tie the thread, and hide the knot in the hole. A simple pine cone decoration is ready!

Do not inject a bump, but the cotton that you pasted on. The seed is very hard and difficult to puncture. Use sharp things with extreme caution!

For beauty, you can also apply a few spots or dots of a different color or tie a ribbon bow. By the way, in addition to threads, a thin elastic band is suitable. The pinecone toy will be pressed against the branch, like a real one. It is as if a silver or gold cone has grown on a magical Christmas tree.

Pine cones

You can not be limited to single tree cones, and collect whole figures from them different forms... From the inventory described above, everything remains unchanged, only it will be added a small amount of steel wire. With its help, we will connect the cones to each other.

It is best suited steel wire, which will play the role of a reinforcing material, with a thickness of 0.5 or 1 millimeter. Copper wire too soft. The figurine will begin to deform under its own weight.

Pineal star

And now we will make a Christmas tree toy from cones, but in the form of a star. We will need spruce cones (5 pieces) of the same size for symmetry. First, you need to create a base of wire: bend it so that there are five rays (we will string on them). We pierce the blunt ends of the cones. With an awl, nail or thick needle. This is to create holes for the ends of the base wire to fit in, and glue on them. We string the cones and start painting. After everything is dry, we make a hole in one of the rays of the star and insert the thread there.

In addition, it is very easy to make the same star, but for the top of the Christmas tree. The manufacturing process is the same, only you need to select and install a small tube so that it fits on the top of the tree branch. Most often, nozzles are made from necks from elongated bottles. The attachment must be installed between the rays of our star, in the middle. Then fasten securely.

It is best to paint silver, red, metallic or gold - it looks great!

Snowflake

Everything is exactly the same, only the wire base must have six ends. We will plant the cones on them not with a blunt part, but with a sharp one. We paint or cover with sequins, make a loop. You will get a very beautiful Christmas tree toy made of cones, as in the photo, in the form of a snowflake.

There are many design options, since even a complex snowflake can be assembled from large and small cones.

Garland

You will need more seeds to make a garland. Moreover, they can be different sizes- so even more beautiful. There is a possibility of painting in various colors. After painting the buds, take a long awl or needle. There are two options for such crafts:

• the cones hang with their end down, one after the other;
• go one after another, like a chain (transverse arrangement).

You should not use a thread: there will be a lot of cones, the thread may break from such a load. Better to take fishing line.

What else can you think of

In addition to the ideas presented, manufacturing options Christmas crafts from achenes of firs and pines, an infinite number. These are both little men and figures of various animals. By the way, the symbol of 2018 is the dog. A dog figurine can be made from cones in the same way, but only spruce ones are suitable here, since pine achenes have a different shape.

You will need bumps of different sizes:

• one big;
• four slightly less;
• two small ones.

The big bump is the body of the dog. It will hold its paws, tail and head. Four smaller bumps are the legs, they should be the same length. One small bump will play the role of the head, and the other - the tail.

We take an awl and pierce the cones. Pour a little glue into the holes and insert matches there. Connect the bumps together. Ears can be made from paper or from small bumps. Gently glue them to the head. Any color is suitable for painting. Don't forget to draw or glue the dog's nose, mouth, and eyes. This is easily done with plasticine.

Crafts from coniferous achenes, suspended on a Christmas tree, burn very well because of the resin remaining inside. Glue, cotton wool and paint will only speed up the burning process. Never use sparklers or candles near a Christmas tree.

Children like cones crafts and their imagination has no limit. So a little penguin, funny mice, a squirrel and a deer, a sleeping beauty, owlets, gnomes, a Christmas wreath will appear on the New Year's tree.

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Getting ready for the holiday? Choosing gifts? Looking for inexpensive options? Make pine cone crafts yourself! They will be great souvenirs for relatives and friends. Interesting ideas and ways to implement them are presented in our review.

Christmas crafts from spruce cones

Spruce cones are used both in expanded form and in thin candles. In order for them to retain their graceful shape, it is necessary to process them with an adhesive solution immediately after collection. It is good to use this material to make a Christmas gift tree. You can do it like this:

1. Make a frame in the form of a cone.
2. Glue the cones in rows: from bottom to top and from large to smaller.
3. Decorate the product with beads, bows, tinsel.

If you have the opportunity to prepare a lot of material, then you can build such a souvenir of any size, as long as you have enough patience.

A Christmas tree toy or a figurine in the form of a hedgehog made of thin fir cones... It is better to choose a hemisphere as a basis. It is easy to make it yourself using the papier-mâché technique by gluing layers of paper onto the ball. It is worth remembering that the frame must be stable and firmly attached to any plane when the souvenir is placed on the table. If you are making a Christmas tree decoration that will hang, on the contrary, it should be as light as possible so that the pendant does not come off. You can also make a beautiful New Year's wreath.

Christmas crafts from pine cones

You can make a lot of this material different decorations and souvenirs. Some examples are used as Christmas tree decorations. They are painted in bright colours, covered with silver and white paints to imitate snow. Gold options look good. They are even sold in ready-made sets with Christmas balls. It is very easy to make them yourself.

The second option is a garland of cones. They can serve as both a Christmas tree and an interior decoration. Painted in combination with beads, bows, balls in one chain, they look very original and stylish. You can also make New Year's crafts from cones in the form of animal figurines, for example, a symbol of the year.

If you disassemble the cone into scales, you can make original applications or mosaic patterns. Small particles are suitable both as decorative elements for finishing any surface, and for full coverage of the form.

For example, in the first case, an openwork ornament is laid out on christmas tree ball large diameter. As a second option, a postcard is made with a front part made of scales. By painting them in different colours in accordance with the picture, they create some kind of image, for example, a Christmas tree against a background of snow. These are the original New Year's crafts from the cone. It is easy to do any of the options with your own hands.

Christmas tree made from one cone

If you need to make many small, inexpensive souvenirs, use the following method:

1. Collect the required number of large cones. If there is not enough snow, and you did not have time to collect the material in advance, this can be done right in December. When they are warm, they will open even if you find them in the form of thin candles. Before they acquire volume, do not process them with anything.
2. Fix each cone on a solid base: glue to a wooden stand, fix it in a small pot.
3. Color the buds in green color or white, imitating snow.
4. Decorate the scales in any way you want. You can sprinkle with beads, after having smeared the scales with glue. They also use dyed cereals: colored to create the effect of Christmas balls and garlands, white to imitate frost.
5. Place a small star or any other decorative element on the top of the head.

See how varied pine cone crafts are. New Year photos with such souvenirs they perfectly demonstrate it.

How to make a ball

To decorate the New Year tree cheaply, quickly and in an original way, you can do Collecting the ball is not at all difficult.

It is enough to do the following:

1. Find a base for example) and make a shape on it using the papier-mâché technique.
2. Glue the cones on the resulting paper sphere. Try to choose copies that are even and the same size.
3. Reinforce the suspension strap. You can make a regular loop, the free ends of which go into the interior of the sphere.
4. Decorate the resulting souvenir of your choice.

As you can see, it is very easy to make New Year's crafts from a cone in the shape of a ball. Most easy option- just paint the collected material with colored pearl paint, attach the pendants. Christmas decorations are ready.

Cone beasts

DIY Christmas crafts from cones (photo below) are very easy to do. You can collect a bear cub, chanterelle, hare, sheep, snake.

You can combine different types and the size of the buds in one object. All elements of large figures are best attached to a wire frame, papier-mâché. If one bump is a paw or ear, then it itself acts as a base.

Topiary

It is a mini spherical tree in a pot. This is not a Christmas tree or a New Year's toy, but just a universal souvenir for any holiday. Made from pine cones and decorated with artificial decorative frost, it will definitely be associated with winter.

Such a gift is made in the same way as the difference is that instead of a pendant, it is fixed on a rod, which is installed in a vase or pot. Topiary is made even from one big bump. beautiful shape... Even children can make New Year's crafts from cones with their own hands (photos above and below).

Subject composition

The children will always be pleased if their New Year's cone crafts decorate the interior of the house. To make it interesting for the kid to create a souvenir, try to offer him this in the form of a game. Make several figures together. Take part in the creation of crafts. Tell about the heroes of your composition, winter, and the upcoming holiday.

If the lesson is held in a group, it is interesting to make different animals, a snowman, a Christmas tree. After that, arrange an exhibition, and not just a static one, but, for example, in the form of a short performance, where everyone will speak on behalf of their hero-crafts. Children will love this kind of fun. It will help to interest the process of creating souvenirs from natural materials.

Scales applique

New Year's can be made different. You've already seen a lot interesting ideas... Another very simple one is to make a postcard where cone scales are used as decoration. So, from the particles of one copy, you can make a large beautiful souvenir. Ideas may differ depending on the amount of material you have at your disposal. If you are limited in the number of buds, use elements to add volume and sophistication to the card. One scale can represent a Christmas toy on a painted Christmas tree. When you have a lot of cones, the scope for creativity opens up very large. From the green-colored scales, like from a mosaic, they lay out a Christmas tree, from white ones - snowdrifts or a snowman, from brown ones - an owl, tree trunks, from red ones - Santa Claus. Anyone can make such New Year's crafts from a cone with their own hands. It's very simple, and the result is original and beautiful.

In addition, the scales are combined with any other materials: cotton wool, cereals, beads, ribbons, bows, plasticine, paint something with a brush. Such original New Year's cone crafts will definitely delight their owners. In addition to a postcard, you can decorate a bottle of champagne with an applique made of scales, lay out a pattern on a glass, vase, chest and any other item for the interior.

You have learned how to make New Year's crafts from a pine cone. Choose the idea you like, prepare everything you need and start the exciting creative process of creating a souvenir. Children will be happy to take part in this.

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The desire to decorate your home for the New Year is characteristic of almost every person. It is doubly more interesting not just to purchase ready-made decor, but to make something original on your own. We suggest going to the coniferous forest and preparing more cones for winter creativity. The editors of the site invite you to find out what you can make New Year's crafts from cones with your own hands, photos and tips from creative masters, as well as the pleasure of getting to know beautiful creations.

If a person's whole idea of ​​crafts made from gifts of spruce, larch, pine and cedar comes down to kindergarten hedgehogs, then it makes sense to expand the boundaries of his own horizons and be surprised at the beauty and grace New Year's compositions from the cones.

There are many ways to use these gifts to benefit your apartment. Cones are used to make:

• candlesticks;
• fairy lights;
• wreaths;
• Christmas decorations;
• Christmas trees;
• decorate a chandelier;
• make out a frame for a photo;
• make animals, birds, flowers;
• beautiful interesting pendants.

Each type of work requires some preparation of the material and the selection of additional decorative elements.

Can bumps be whitened?

On the Internet, there are photos with the design of rooms, where bleached cones are used as decor. Let's make a reservation right away, it is unlikely that it will be possible to repeat the effect, and the masters are reluctant to part with such secrets. But we will show you how to achieve a decent bleaching of a tree cone.

First, collect all the fallen coniferous inflorescences and clean them of resin residues. We put everything in a container with an alkaline agent - for this purpose, the “Mole” pipe cleaner is suitable. After 2-3 hours, rinse the bumps and leave them to dry.

Important! Do not be surprised: with prolonged contact with liquid, the coniferous inflorescence will fold. Upon subsequent drying, the petals will open again.

All the bumps will soon drown and close. We close the container tightly with a lid and put it on the balcony for reliability and safety. It is best to forget about the jar all night long. In the morning we take out all the closed inflorescences and dry them at low temperatures in the oven until they are completely open. If necessary, repeat the whiteness procedure.

Paint, paint, paint

The second option for changing the natural color is such a method as staining. Painting is carried out by means of a spray can or by lowering the material into a can of paint. Well, you can try to paint a kilogram of buds with a brush, but not every person has reached the highest level of patience of the Dalai Lama. Therefore, let's return to the description of simple and affordable methods of staining.

When using paint in a spray can, the cones are also tied up to dry.

There is a third way to change the natural color: we dip the lump in PVA glue and sprinkle it with glitter (sparkles) of the desired color, fortunately, their choice is not limited today.

The best cones craft for the New Year is a festive wreath

A wreath is a large-scale and especially decorative craft made from fir cones. Such a product will serve more than one holiday, since its strength will be beyond praise, and it will look on the door truly New Year's.

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Crafts from cones for the new year: decorating the interior

If the craft does not serve for aesthetic purposes, then there is little sense from it: you cannot put it in a prominent place, and it will not give any pleasure when contemplating. It's another matter when creativity and skill organically fit into the design of the room, gently transforming and complementing it. Let's try to imagine what a room decorated with bumpy beauty would look like?

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Decorative decoration in the form of a small Christmas tree is already a tradition in the house where they will celebrate New Year... To turn a pile of different cones into an incomparable Christmas tree, we take a thermal gun, decorative elements: beads, pompons, earrings without pairs that have been accumulating for several years will work, acrylic paint, glitter, LED garland - the decoration can be anything, the main thing is that it all looks harmonious.

The main thing you need is a cone. The cone can be made of thick cardboard, the remains of wallpaper, foam rubber.

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Chandelier transformation for the New Year

A great idea can be a decor from New Year's crafts made of cones and branches in the form of a chandelier decoration. To make the lighting in the room truly atmospheric, you will need to prepare the material: lighten the bumps, paint or simply roll in glue and sprinkle with glitter.

Making a frame for a photo

To create an unusual photo frame, we use a frame-frame made of cardboard of any shape and a cardboard frame that repeats the contours of the frame, hot glue and cones.

We glue the frame onto the cardboard base, not forgetting to leave a place where we will insert the photo. We glue the tape as a pendant. Now we will glue different cones onto the cardboard frame.

What's New Year without candles? Changing dull candlesticks for holiday ones

For the house, New Year's crafts in the form of candlesticks are also made from cones. Perhaps this is the ideal way to use the gifts of the coniferous forest. Since this material is beautifully decorated, there is no problem to make a solemn composition out of it by adding other decorations.

New Year's decor of the back of a chair with cones

In an attempt to invoke the spirit of Christmas into the house, it is worth thinking about the little things in the decor. Even the back of the chair will play important role if you decorate it with a simple but nice looking pendant.

Christmas crafts from cones: what figures can be made to decorate the tree

Surely, in search of interesting new ideas, many pictures of New Year's crafts from cones were considered. But sometimes the picture does not give an answer to the question "how is it done?"

Consider the Christmas tree decorations that you can make if you are not too lazy and collect more pine or spruce cones. Children love to pour their imagination into New Year's crafts from cones and acorns, why not connect adults to such a pastime?

The Christmas mood will be given by the angels who descended on the tree. It will be great if they are not hung on New Year's Eve, but on Christmas. To make an angel, you need to prepare the material for the wings and head.

You can try to make several different animals and birds by turning Christmas tree in a haven for animals.

In addition to the animal kingdom, pine balls and snowflakes will perfectly hang on the tree.

Other ideas for using cones in New Year's design

They hung the wreath, decorated the tree, and didn't even forget about the chairs and frames on the wall. Now let's start decorating surfaces. It is impossible to keep silent about the fact that natural material great for creating topiary.

Do not forget that as soon as the snow falls, it will cover all the fruits of coniferous trees, so we are going to collect forest gifts sooner!

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If you are lucky enough not only to walk through the coniferous forest, but also to bring a few cones from there, then make beautiful New Year's crafts out of them.

We make toys for the Christmas tree

From a cone, you can make not only a Christmas toy for a Christmas tree, but also the Christmas tree itself, as in the photo. To do this, paint it green and wait until it dries. Attach bows, beads and snowflakes, flowers cut from white lace to a miniature Christmas tree. Don't forget to make a stand for the Christmas tree.

If you show your imagination, you will be able to create creative crafts from cones in the form of squirrels, deer and birds, but you have to make them heads and legs, and the cones will serve as a body.

If you just paint the bump or cover it with glue and sprinkle with sparkles, you get an unusual decoration, to which you just have to attach a loop.

Candlesticks made of natural material

The shining of festive lights raises your spirits, so on holidays you want to see them as often as possible. Do not limit yourself only to garlands, make New Year's candlesticks from cones, and they will add brightness and comfort to the interior.

The easiest option is to decorate ready-made candlesticks, decorating them in the spirit of the holiday with pine cones, twigs and Christmas tree decorations.

Interesting candlesticks can be obtained from glass jars by pouring artificial snow (or ordinary salt) on the bottom. TO upper part cans, glue a strip of lace, tie a couple of cones, sprinkled with "snow".

Make candlesticks from flowerpots, as in the photo, decorating them artificial needles... For decoration, use small Christmas toys, cinnamon sticks, beads and cones.

Wreaths on the door

Currently, they are popular, it is not difficult to make them. The main thing is to prepare a reliable base in the form of a circle.
The base frame can be made from:

• wire;
• a flexible wire hanger for clothes;
• thick cardboard;
• buy a ready-made circle in a handicraft store.

Decor elements are attached to the base: cones, ribbons, bows, nuts, leaves, etc. To make the product look more impressive, some details can be covered with gilding, white paint imitating snow or sparkles.

Decor for table setting

Do not forget that not only should be smart Christmas tree, but also festive table... Let cute gnomes from cones hide between the plates or bright owls peep out. Make nice souvenirs for each party to the feast: glue bright feathers to the cone and write the name of the person to whom the cutlery is intended.

Pine cone Christmas decorations for the New Year can be quite simple.

The cones are painted with any colors (gold and silver look especially beautiful), then ropes or ribbons are attached to them to hang on the Christmas tree.

It turns out beautiful DIY Christmas toys.

Be sure to try making a few of these with your kids.

On our site you will find ideas for Christmas tree decorations with photos and descriptions of how to make them.

For the manufacture of a toy, one cone is usually taken as a basis.

1. Small Stuffed Toys that your child no longer plays can be turned into wonderful Christmas tree decorations.

To do this, paint over the bump with paint and attach the head of the toy to it.

By adding wings, paws and tails, you will get Christmas tree decorations made from cones in the form of unique animals that you can hang on your tree.

2. Using scales pine cone you can also make an original toy for the New Year.

Create a blank of the desired shape from foam rubber or papier-mâché. Glue the carefully removed scales to its surface. Decorate with sparkles for a snowy effect.

3. Paint the bump with a suitable paint, glue a bow with matching bells and tie a thread to the top. Cones that are not completely covered with sparkles, but only on the tips of the scales, look very beautiful.

4. To make the main new year symbol- Santa Claus from a cone, it must first be dipped in red paint and allowed to dry well.

The most important thing is to create the head of the magic grandfather. If there is no ready-made version, you can sew it from fabric. To do this, you need to pick up a small ball, sheathe it with a beige cloth, glue felt or white cotton wool in the shape of a beard at the bottom, and build a red cap at the top.

You can draw the eyes of Santa Claus, or you can glue small black beads.

5. Fold the red ribbon in half and place the red wooden ring over it. Fold the free ends of the ribbon in a bow. Tone the bump a little with gold spray paint. Try to apply paint evenly.

Use a glue gun to glue the bow to the top of the bump. Straighten the ends of the tape.

Glue the beads between the cone scales. Attach a glass bead to the end of the bump.

Decorate the top of the cone with small golden cones. To do this, glue them along the wooden ring.

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Christmas toys made of cones on a Christmas tree will help you create a cozy atmosphere of the upcoming celebration in your house and will never lose their relevance as a festive decor.